When it comes to his next big romance, Lukas Gage plans to keep things private. “I don’t think everything should be such an exhibition for the world,” Gage, 30, exclusively told on September 23 ahead of his upcoming memoir, I Wrote This for Attention.
“I think some things should be kept for you and be a little more personal,” he continued. “And yeah, I just think there’s some things that should be sacred and that’s OK that I wasn’t, I was very in people’s faces in my last relationship. Maybe for the next one, we’ll just keep it a little more quiet.”
Gage was famously married to Chris Appleton after a whirlwind romance. The pair got engaged just one month after relationship rumors first surfaced in February 2023. By April, the former couple had said “I do” during a wedding officiated by Kim Kardashian.
After nearly seven months of marriage, Appleton filed for divorce from Gage, with the two reaching a settlement in June 2024.
Gage reflects on his brief marriage to Appleton, as well as other highs and lows in his life, in his memoir I Wrote This for Attention, which was released on Tuesday, October 14.
“The book is inspired from my many journals I kept as a kid, where I wrote about a lot of things that I never shared with anybody else,” he previously teased. “In this book, I start talking about it, and you can see why sometimes it felt safer not to.”
While Gage reiterated that he plans to “keep it more low-key on the second marriage,” he has no regrets about sharing so much of his private life — especially in his memoir, where he sometimes finds humor even in the darkest moments.
“You have to [laugh],” he explained. “I think that’s a coping mechanism. And also, like, some crazy s*** happens, but it’s also not that crazy — it’s universal. Like, people can connect with some of this dark stuff that has happened to me. And I think, you know, I made light of it.”
He added, “I always have humility with all things in my life, but, in reality, like that moment there was, you know, there was a trial and error with medications that I was on and being misdiagnosed.
What comes with that, sometimes, is a manic, hyper mania going on. And yeah, it was a very impulsive, crazy time. But suddenly, when I put things into perspective and I got on the right dosage, and I, you know, got my mind clear, it just made sense that I made some of the decisions that I made, and they weren’t great, but, like I said earlier — no regrets, because maybe I wouldn’t have figured it out.”
The actor acknowledged that not everyone might find humor in the darkness, noting that some people thought he was “making [a] joke or making light of” difficult situations, including the end of his marriage.
“And of course, in a way, I was, you know?” he added. “Like, you have to make light of some of the dark moments.”